So I am one of those moms that saves everything. Well, not EVERYTHING, but close. I love the little handprint pictures and scribbles, their first drawing of something that they actually can tell me what it is, and then the first drawing that I can actually tell what it is... But lately it has been piling up in the corner of my kitchen and making a little more than crazy. So this morning, I starting SCANNING them onto my external hard drive!
So now my question is this? What do you do to declutter all those lovely papers? Take a look and then chuck them, save them til someone else throws them out, or keep them in a box until they get married and then let their spouse get rid of them?
Do share!:)
Wow, that is a REALLY good idea. I should totally do that. Unfortunately, many of our papers have glitter, glue, and googly eyes all over them.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the glitter and glue are not wet, I don't see a problem. Just shake off the loose stuff first. Or you can always take a picture of some of those more 'fragile' items and then throw them out...:)
ReplyDeleteI often take pictures and then throw the actual item away. But mostly I have a binder showing the progression of the artwork. For a few months pretty much every picture looks the same, but once they change something (like coloring in the lines or trying to create shapes), then that is the picture I save and put in the binder. The rest get to go to the recycling plant. I wish I had a scanner though so I could make everything electronic. Maybe someday!
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